Just ahead of the Q216 fiscal results, shopblackberry.com let us know that they currently have a promotion on their entire store catalogue. With the following discount code you get 10% off your next purchase and the good news is that it’s available in all 6 stores (US, CA, UK, FR, DE, EU).

In a surprise move, BlackBerry has just announced that it will acquire Good technology for $425M. It seems particularly interested in the containerization and secure application delivery technologies, which is good news for a company which seems to have shifted its focus on Android. Looking at the numbers provided by BlackBerry though, we can see that Good…

xsacha of Sachesi fame has just published an interesting new online service called Bar Download. It allows you to download free apps from BlackBerry World straight from any browser. Browse BlackBerry World until you find the app you want to download Copy the address you see in the browser (URL field) Paste the address in the…

Update: It seems this model will be released sooner than I expected under the code names Visa and Victoria. Expected launch date? Early Q2 2015! I was just looking for information on the US Patent Office’s website when I stumbled upon BlackBerry’s patent #8,830,667, dated September 9th, which describes a “storable keyboard having a pivoting…

It seems BlackBerry is getting ready to finally launch its Blend solution which allows a BlackBerry 10 user to have access to his messages (Email, BBM, SMS), contacts, appointments from any desktop or tablet computer, after having paired it with his smartphone. We’ve seen various demonstrations of the system in the past and the official…

Version 10.2 of BlackBerry 10 introduced the Dark and Bright themes which were gradually introduced into most of the apps provided by BlackBerry in the OS, and ever since the first 10.3 leaks, we’ve seen the introduction of controversial, new colours into the UI and discovered that BlackBerry would introduce colour accents into the OS….

BerryLeaks has just dropped a new leak of the 10.2.1 branch. I recommend skipping this one since the camera is broken and there is no way to fix it. I’m sure some people will start bundling the most interesting apps from this build so that you can install it on an earlier version. Watch this crackberry…